Introducing: Who Killed JFK?

In commemoration of the 60th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's assassination, Who Killed JFK? explores the pressing questions that still surround one of the most tragic moments of the 20th century. Award-winning journalist Soledad O'Brien and beloved filmmaker Rob Reiner team up to discover the truth behind the assassination, revealing how the ramifications of the 1963 tragedy still impact American society today.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
The assassination of President John F. Kennedy is the greatest
murder mystery in American history. I was sixteen years old
when it happened, and it has never left me.

Speaker 2 (00:13):
That's Rob Briner, creative powerhouse behind the films when Harry
met Sally the Princess Bride, to name a few. Recently,
Rob called me sold At O'Brien and asked me what
I knew about this crime which happened sixty years ago.
I know the government's first investigation concluded that a lone
gunman named Lee Harvey Oswald killed the president. I also

(00:37):
know that fifteen years later the government backtracked on that
story and said the assassination was a result of a conspiracy.
Sixty years later, new leads are still emerging. To me,
an award winning journalist, that's the making of an incredible story.
And on this podcast you're going to hear it told

(00:58):
by one of America's greatest storytellers. So, Rob, you're the
one who's done the reporting on the story. So I'm
going to let you lead me on this journey.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Okay, Well, to solve any murder, you started the scene
of the crime.

Speaker 2 (01:14):
Kennedy.

Speaker 1 (01:14):
Apparently he fell down in the back seat of his
car the single bullet.

Speaker 3 (01:19):
Sery holds that one bullet answered, the President's back moved upward.
Then when the bullet comes out, it's moving again downward, leftward,
and forward turns in mid air.

Speaker 1 (01:33):
How in the hell is that possible? And we'll answer
decades long questions by talking directly to people who were there.

Speaker 2 (01:41):
Missus Kennedy stood up and right behind where she had
been sitting there was a princetine bullet.

Speaker 1 (01:48):
Then we'll ask who had the motive to assassinate a
sitting president.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
My dad five JFK screwed us at the Bay of Pigs,
and then he screwed us after the Cuban missile crisis.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
Then we'll pull the cur and back on the cover up.
I've said that the agency cooperated with us. I misspoke.
Were you mad? Furious? We'll reveal why Lee Harvey Oswald
isn't who they said he was. I was under the
oppression that Lee was being trained for a specific operation.
Will introduce you to people who attempted to reveal the truth,

(02:20):
only to pay the ultimate price. He was chopped up
and stuffed in oil, drawn and thrown into the Viscayne
day until eventually we make our way back to Dallas.
On November twenty second, nineteen sixty three.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
I asked my mom where's Papa, and she said he's
in Dallas on business. I'm glanced my shoulder and I
saw package on the backseat, and so I said, what's
in a package?

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Lee?

Speaker 2 (02:45):
What does it matter for those of us who were
born after it happened? I think we miss that sense
of like what America lost.

Speaker 1 (02:53):
President Kennedy's death was a profound national trauma, the effects
of which are still felt today. The American people need
to know the truth.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
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